Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics: 11 - Rilegato

Sime, Ruth Lewin

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ISBN 10: 0520089065 ISBN 13: 9780520089068

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics community. Of Jewish origin, Meitner fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 and later moved to Cambridge, England. Her career was shattered when she fled Germany, and her scientific reputation was damaged when Hahn took full creditand the 1944 Nobel Prizefor the work they had done together on nuclear fission. Ruth Sime's absorbing book is the definitive biography of Lise Meitner, the story of a brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific progress but also the injustice and destruction that have marked the twentieth century.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ruth Lewin Sime is on the chemistry faculty at Sacramento City College.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Deprived of the Nobel Prize she so clearly deserved for her contribution to the discovery of nuclear fission, Lise Meitner has never been given the attention she deserves in the history of twentieth-century physics. Now, with grace, style, and great authority, Ruth Sime sets the record straight."Susan Quinn, author of Marie Curie: A Life

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520089065
• ISBN 13: 9780520089068
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 526